![]() His recently published attack on the autobiography of Colonel David Crockett, U.S. He is Edgar Allan Poe, a literary critic known for his uncompromising standards and scathing pen. He is an aspiring writer, plagued by dreadful ruminations - a man whose troubled nights are haunted by dreams of his angelic cousin Virginia. Superbly rendering the 1830s Baltimore of Edgar Allan Poe, Schechter taps into the dark genius of that legendary author - and follows a labyrinthine path into the heart of a most heinous crime. Praised by Caleb Carr for his "brilliantly detailed and above all riveting" true-crime writing, Harold Schechter brings his expertise to a marvelous work of fiction in the tradition of Carr's own The Alienist. ![]() ![]() Historical fact and startling literary invention converge in this stunning novel by "America's principal chronicler of its greatest psychopathic killers" (The Boston Book Review). ![]()
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